A New Jersey man who was a controller at a special purpose acquisition company has been hit with civil and criminal claims in an alleged scheme to profit from insider trading.

Robert Del Prete of Brick pleaded guilty to a one-count information on Monday for a stock deal that generated $60,170 based on a stock deal that he carried out using nonpublic information about a pending merger, according to documents from a case brought by U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger.